Countless hair-thin sword auras pierced the entire space, forming an inescapable net.
Secret Sword: Star Scar!
A fierce wind surged through the dark corridor.
The web of light scattered in the wind, whirling out in every direction as it shredded everything in its path.
Severed hands, heads, chests, and innards flew everywhere.
Rigid-bodied cultivators were wiped out in droves.
Yet the cultivators who were still alive remained unmoved.
They stood there coldly, watching the sword soaring through the air with strange expressions.
"So it's the Yellow Springs Ghost King, who has never before appeared in the world," they said in unison.
It was as if some being were speaking to Gu Qingshan through the mouths of all the cultivators.
The next moment.
All the bloody corpses that had been cut down flew backward, landed on the Vermilion Gate, and were silently sucked inside.
An eerie red glow began to spread across the gate.
Creak—
The gate slowly swung open.
A chilling wind howled.
Hundreds of skeletons clad in armor and wielding all kinds of weapons flew out through the gate.
Surrounded by ghost fire, the skeletons hurtled toward Gu Qingshan.
Yellow Springs Ghost Soldiers!
The cultivators Gu Qingshan had slain with a single sword had been reborn as Yellow Springs Ghost Soldiers through the Vermilion Gate!
The remaining cultivators smiled eerily and spoke in unison:
"Legend has it the Yellow Springs Ghost King can command all the dead. I'm not entirely convinced. Come, come, let me see what you can do."
Gu Qingshan acted as though he hadn't heard them and swung a massive, moon-white Sword Aura.
All the ghost soldiers roared together. They neither dodged nor retreated, charging straight at the Sword Aura.
Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang!
The Sword Aura struck them, ringing out with countless clashes.
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